OET Grades Accepted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, UK

Results must be from single administration or two administrations within a six-month period

Score a B in Listening, Reading and Speaking and a C+ in Writing

No grade lower than C+ if combining two administrations.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced it will formally recognise OET for overseas-trained nurses and midwives for registration purposes, from 1 November 2017. You will need to achieve at least Grade B in all four sub-tests of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.

In OET you must achieve at least Grade B in all four sub-tests of Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.

NMC will only accept OET test results:

From one test administration, or

From a maximum of two test administrations taken in a six-monthperiod, only if:

You achieve a minimum B grade in Listening, Reading and Speaking and a C+ in Writing across the two test administrations

You are tested in all four sub-tests in each administration, and

No grade in any sub-test is below C+

Both tests were taken from February 2016 onwards.

Example 1:

Listening

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Test 1

B

B

C+

B

Test 2

B

C+

C+

B

This application would be accepted. The applicant has scored B in Listening, Reading and Speaking and C+ in Writing, and no score is lower than C+.

Example 2:

Listening

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Test 1

B

B

C+

C+

Test 2

C

C+

B

B

This application would not be accepted. The applicant has scored lower than C+.

NMC will only accept results from OET test administrations taken from February 2016 onwards.

They will not accept applicants with grades lower than this standard.

All OET Statement of Results issued from the November 2017 test administration onwards will show Grades A, B, C+, C, D & E.